Rethinking Jane Austen?s Lady Susan : the Case for Her Failed Epistolary Novella.

By:

Owen, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773429895
0773429891

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking Jane Austen?s Lady Susan : The Case for Her Failed Epistolary Novella.DDC classification:

823.7

LOC classification:

PR4034 .L336 2010

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Contents:

RETHINKING JANE AUSTEN'S LADY SUSAN: The Case for Her 'Failed' Epistolary Novella; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on the Editions of Austen's Works Cited in Rethinking Jane Austen's Lady Susan; Permissions; Introduction: A Different Way to Tell the Story; Part One: Learning through the Epistolary: Catharine and Lady Susan; Chapter 1: Catharine; Chapter 2: Lady Susan; Chapter 3: Improving on Catharine; Part Two: Abandoning the Epistolary: To the Great Detriment of the Post office Revenue -- Chapter 4: Form and Politics.

Chapter 5: Austen the Reader, Austen the WriterConclusions; Appendix: Critical Studies on Austen's Epistolary Writing; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: This full-length study of Lady Susan refutes the long-accepted, unchallenged critical view of the novella put forward by Austen scholars that largely deems the work to be unsatisfactory and marginal. Eschewing the idea that this novella is stylistically regressive, the study argues thatLady Susan was left unfinished for political and commercial reasons.

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Chapter 5: Austen the Reader, Austen the WriterConclusions; Appendix: Critical Studies on Austen's Epistolary Writing; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

This full-length study of Lady Susan refutes the long-accepted, unchallenged critical view of the novella put forward by Austen scholars that largely deems the work to be unsatisfactory and marginal. Eschewing the idea that this novella is stylistically regressive, the study argues thatLady Susan was left unfinished for political and commercial reasons.